The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Journal des Debatiof Tuesday last has en able article on the subject of Lord Durham's resignation. After a succinct statement of the state of Canada previous to his appointment, our French Contemporary proceeds to de scribe the effects which followed his arrival in the colony. In stating that his arrival immediately led, as if by en chantment, to the extinction of the revolt, there is a little exaggeration, for the revolt was suppressed before his arrival. In short, the object of his Lordship's mission was rather to devise the means for healing the wounds made by the revolt, and for securing the future peace and pros perity of the colony, than to combat the insurgents. The tribute of the Journal des Debats to the use made by Lord Durham of the extensive powers committed to him is most deserved, and its censure of the means resorted to at home for thwarting him is characterised by impar tiality : " While, far from his home, Lord Durham was exerting himself to prevent the dismemberment of the British empire, implacable enemies were endeavouring in his country to thwart him, without giving themselves the least concern whether or not their triumph would be a national calamity. The Go vernor-General had prescribed certain arrangements re lative to the residence of the prisoners in the Bermudas, as much with a view to tranquillize them with regard to their lot, as to prevent their return to Canada. A pro digious respect for legality all at once was felt by his adver saries. Had not Lord Durham exceeded tl.e limits of his powers? Singular scruples with regard to a magistrate sent, with the most unlimited powers, to a country in which the constitution was already suspended, in which all the representa tive institutions had been suppressed, in which the law of ha beas corpus r.o longer was in force, in a country, in short, wholly governed by martial law ! In vesting Lord Durham with the dictatorship, was it not that he might provide according to the best of his judgment for all the circumstances which might arise at two thousand leagues from the mother country ? Had he lost sight of the spirit, whatever might be the case with regard to the strict letter of his powers ? Had he exceeded the object of his mission? If he had kept within the limits of his written instructions, ought he not to have been loudly supported? And if he had gone beyond them in an accessory point, but for a useful result, ought not what he bad done to have been ratified and legalized? " But the spirit of party is little disposed to act so honour ably. The, object was to wound the English Ministry in one of their agents ; and this miserable dispute about words was excited against Lord Durham. In their turn the Adminis tration committed a fault : they did not defend their repro. sentative. However, they are now paying the penalty of that weakness, for their conduct has involved them in more serious embarrassments than the Parliamentary struggle which they wished to escape. But Lord Durham, attacked by his adver saries, abandoned by his friends, saw his acts condemned in Parliament without having been defended." The Journal des Debats then proceeds to justify the resignation, as due to his own self-respect. In examining the proclamation of Lord Durham the Journal des Debats proves that it does not understand the bearing of the re krms indicated by Lord Durham. "It must be owned," says our French Contemporary, " that all the reforms pro jected by his Lordship are the condemnation of the old mode of governing the colony, the confession of the reality of the grievances of Canada, almost the justification of the recurrence to arms." If the Journal des Debats had said that hostility to the reforms projected by Lord Durham drove the Canadians into insurrection it would have been nearer the mark. The Journal des Debats assumes that because Lord Durham's plans of reform are reasonable, that therefore the French Canadians had been desirous of them, and the English Government had stood between them and their reasonable desires. " Lord Durham's de sign," it observes, " was to make Canada participate in the institutions which render their country so dear to the English ; he wished to merge differences of race in a more large and comp re h ens i ve nat i ona li ty ." Th e J ourna l des Debats is not aware that the rights for which the French Canadians flew to arms were the right to reject all improvement, the right to retain their own barbarous laws and usages, the right to avoid participation in English in stitutions, the right to keep the colony in such a state as to make it an unfit residence for Britons ; the right, in short, to preserve their separate nationality, to rescind all the grants of land to Britons. The French Canadians wished to be independent of England merely that they might remain in ignorance, a prey to a set of miserable notaries and doctors, whose consequence depended on fill ing them with the most absurd prejudices with regard tothe designs of their English fellow-subjects. The English Go vernment, in its former quarrels with the Canadas, was often wrong ; but the principal cause of most of the mis takes was the defective Constitution of the colony. Without destroying the Constitution, the improve ments projected by Lord Durham could not have been effected. And if the Journal des Debats will take the trouble of looking a little below the surface, it will find that the French Canadians, through their agents in Lon don, were at the bottom of the opposition to Lord Dur ham in the House of Lords, and that they sullenly held back from his Lordship on account of the very Reforms the want of which that Paper supposes drove them into in surrection. They who have read M. de Tocqueville's book will have little difficulty in comprehending what has taken place in Canada. The French are a civilised and polished nation, but their civilisation rests on a bad foun dation. In England and in the United States the inhabi tants of every neighbourhood direct their own local affairs, and the spirit of improvement pervades in this manner the whole community. In France, on the other hand, all power centres in Paris, and that and the other great towns draw to them nearly all the intelligence of the country. In this way the peasantry, being left to themselves, remain immersed in the profoundest ignorance. Hence an English man or American who travels through France is sur prised at nothing so much as at the little benefit de rived by the great mass of the French nation from the rich stores of knowledge possessed by the classes in easy circumstances. Surrounded on all sides by intelligent agriculturists, the Italians, Swiss, Belgians, &c., the peasantry in many of the departments of France are utter strangers to the most common principles of agri culture, such as that on which, for instance, a rotation of crops is founded. This ignorance on the part of the French peasantry renders it exceedingly difficult to secure them against those who may wish to take advantage of it. Volney saw and lamented the contrast in America between the men of English race and the French, and the difficul ties in the way of fitting the latter fer self-government. The great mistake committed by our Government at start ing was in not making sufficient allowance for the back wardness in which French institutions had left the Cana dians, and in not duly preparing them, by the communica tion of analogous laws and institutions, for those constitu tional privileges which the Anglo-American and the Eng lishman have always been accustomed to enjoy. The low Englishman may be ignorant and prejudiced, but he is everywhere surrounded by men by whose example he can profit, and who, at all events, prevent his ignorance being turned to the danger of the community. We must make Lower Canada an English colony. It has hitherto been a French one.—Morning Chronicle. The Aberdeen Liberals—and their name is Legion— have, very appropriately, followed on the heels of the Con servatives of that city in " sitting down," as the phrase is, "to an excellent dinner." An abridged report of the speeches delivered on the occasion, taken from the Aber deen Herald, will be found in another part of our paper. The occasion which was the immediate cause of this gather ing of the Aberdeen Reformers, was that of celebrating the establishment of the Registration Association ; Mr. Bannerman, Member for the city, presided as Chairman, and a very excellent Chairman he seems to have made, though it is but justice to the Honourable Gentleman to say he could not have acquitted himself when presiding at this dinner better than he does in the capacity of the re presentative in the Parliament of the people of Aberdeen. In replying to the toast which proposed the drinking of his health, Mr. Bannerman made some good hits at the ex pense of certain of the Aberdeen Tories who figured at the Conservative feed given in that town a few days previously. He complained that, notwithstanding their threatened return to office, and their high-sounding pretensions to a knowledge of every thing that passes at Court, they did not condescend to enlighten the Liberals as to the existing state of matters with regard to the Ministry, but left them in " outer darkness." Thi s was doubtless very cruel on the part of the Tories, when a single word would have dispelled the ignorance in which the Liberal party are enveloped regarding their future doom. Possibly, how ever, the Aberdeen Tories may not, after all, have pre served the unbroken silence on this point which marked the proceedings at their gormandizing exh ay , or ftrhoem con motivesthat the of abstract dispositio n to be cruel. They . m trary, have been promptedtoey mayrern remain mute fro mou the most merciful kind. They cruelty would have co nsisted in tormeutin b g efo t r h e e han L d ib e:fa l as the awaits them an d o before their time, by admonishing t hem . cf the e doom of so awful a kind as that w their cause. If such were notions s Aberdeen Tories, they were based on a false philosophy ; for it is far better at any time to know the worst that is likely to happen, than to be kept in a state of suspense. Sir Thomas Burnett made a short b ut very exc ellent speech at this diviner. His reference to thos e who had once worn the colours of Reform, but had gone over to the enemy's camp, was extremely happy. There could be no question in the mind of any one present, though no names all P mentioned, as to the parties Sir Thoma s head on y in his eye. At any rate, there was one rsoEI who, as soon as he heard the purport of Sir Thomas's speech, could be in no danger of mistaking the allusion. That person is Mr, liOrtitibAoss, of Bessie. This renegade from liberal principles,` trialKto the instinct of all renegades, had been one o f t h e iiiiistVolent traducers of the party whore he so Aishouourahltigdened, that ever de a lt i n foul-mouthed cothasodieiesa eel at made Sir Thomas Bu rn ett's pointed reference:a:id; #apostate tell with greater effect, was the ~ .taot,thati) as only a few days previously he had been , ,---._ 24.- j.,, ..!V- i il ..2'-"--- i~ ,~ ~~ THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1838. impediments thus presented to him, any man who has a map on his table, or the least knowledge of the respect!ve Powers of Europe, must see that the fate of a Russian invader once across the Danube is as completely at the mercy of the Austrian army on its flank as was Napoleon at that of Blucher at sunset on the day of Waterloo. We meant to have accompanied the above remarks by the mention of a short pamphlet which has been scot to us, on " The Foreign Relations of England, by Mr. Montague Gore," hut we must reserve the latter for a future oppor tunity.—Times. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LIVER- POOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY• (From the Liverpool Courier.) The luggage train, which left Liverpool for Manchester late on Monday evening, met with an accident which ter minated fatally to the engineer and fireman, on ascending the incline plane at Whiston. The train consisted of forty three waggons, and was propelled by four engines, two in front and two behind. The rise of the road is about one foot in ninety, and the train at a few minutes past eight o'clock was seen advancing slowly up the hill at a steady pace, when all of a sudden the Patentee, the first engine, exploded with a noise resembling the firing of cannon, the report being beard at Prescott and other places, more than a mile distant. The engine broke away from the rest of the train, and proceeded at a flying pace for three or four hundred yards along the line. It was sadly shattered, and the tubes destroyed. A search was made for the engineer and fireman immediately on the train stop ping. They had been blown into the fields on either side of the road, full forty yards distant. Charles Warburton, the engineer, was found in a field on tite right hand tide of the line ; his right leg was broken, and his head dread. fully crushed. Samuel Jones, the fireman, a lad of set en teen years of age, was blown in a quite contrary direction. His left leg was entirely severed from his body at the hip joint, and was found several yards distant from the spot where his body was discovered. Both men were dreadfully scalded, and their clothes torn to shreds. None of the en gineers or hreaksmen on the other engines received any in jury, their escape is attributed to the tender attach. d to the patent( e engine hating formed a resistance to the power of the exploded steam. At three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a Jury met at the sign of the Engine public-house, to inquire touching the deaths of the unfortunate sufferers, John Heycs, of Prescott, presiding as Coroner. \Villiam Thomas deposed that he was a watchman in the employment of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Company. Last night he went on duty ratherbefore his time, and while sitting in his box heard au explosion,and running out saw an engine flying past him. He had heard the train regularly beating up the hill, just before the explosion. On going out he ran after the engine. It was the Paten tee, and had run about 160 yards from the place where the explosion occurred. He found the engine detached from the tender. There were no firemen with it, and the back of the engine (the fire part) was blown away, and one of the tubes was hanging out. The tender was attached to the Fury, the s_Tond engine of the trr in. The other firemen asked if witness had seen the engineer and fireman belonging to the Patentee, and on ascertaining that he had not, they all went in search of them. The explosion took place just as the Prescot bells were ringing eight o'clock, and it strongly resembled a fire explosion in a coal-pit, or the report of a cannon. Witness did not perceive that the rest of the boiler was injured. The carriage on which it ran was on fire, and the tire was still burning in the fur nace. Witness has frequently seen the engineers attach weights to the safety valve, and hold on the lever, so as to keep their steam up on ascending the incline. He believed the Directors did not permit them to do so, and that they were not aware of the practice. The deceased men were picked up afterwards—one of them on the north, and the other on the south side of the railway. Witness had fre quently seen the deceased " weighting" the safety valves. He knew that the Patentee engine had been running for more than two years. Two other engines followed the train. It was dark at the time the explosion took place. Mr. Melling, engineer to the Company, deposed that he had seen the Patentee engine since the accident. The furnace end was blown out. Witness could not account for the accident. If there had been a scarcity of water the leaden plugs would have melted, and the fire would have been put out. A burst tube would have produced the same effect. The Company strongly prohibit the road engineers from " weighting" the engines, and would discharge them on its being made known that they did so. They had no right to press on the levers. Witness could not state positively whether the Patentee had a safety valve placed out of the controul of the engineers. Some of the engines have three safety valves. The Patentee had run five years, and belonged to the Manchester end of the line. The boiler was about a quarter of an inch thick, and was calculated to bear a pressure of fifty pounds to the inch. No injury was done to the tender, except the breaking of the drag-link, used to attach it to the en gine. If the deceased men had the steam up at too great a pressure, and then applied pressure to the safety valves, an explosion might be the consequence. It is more dangerous to apply pressure to a boiler when the en. gines ascend an incline than on level ground, the steam in the latter case escaping much faster. Warburton was an old and experienced engineer. Witness is practical en gineer at the Liverpool end, and has charge of the en gines. Mr. Fife is the engineer at Manchester, and the Patentee belonged to him. Forty-three waggons was a very great load, and, in his opinion, was the indirect case of the accident, for provided the train had bee n divided, in all probability the accident would not have happened. 'The Patentee was always reckoned a famous eng ine. Richard Greenall, the road-engineer to the Bank Engine, which is kept in waiting at the foot of the incline to assist the trains on their ascent, deposed that he and the other engineers last night, in consequence of their having the as sistance of the Lion, a new engine, agreed to take the whole train, which consisted of forty-three waggons, up the in cline at once. Having four engines on the whole, he thought they had plenty of power, as the Hercules had on a previous occasion, by herself, taken up seventeen waggons, and the Patentee sixteen waggons. The two hindmost en gines had scarcely felt the incline when the e xplosion took place. The clothes of th e de c eased men were torn to pieces, and the trowsers and shoes of one of them were separated from the body. Both men lived at Manchester. War. burton was m arr i e d. J ones w as single, and about eighteen years of age. Witness had occasionally seen engineers apply weights to the engines, and thinks there is scarcely an engineer on the line who does not do so on a pinch. Warburton wished to go up the line with thirty-three wag gons only, but the fireman agreeing with witness on the probability of getting the whole train up the incline they started with forty-three. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of 20s. on the engine. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL.--Under the title of " Gurney Married," Mr. Hook has just given to the world the sequel to his admirable " Gilbert Gurney." The present work partakes of the merit of the former produc tion, and may perhaps be said to excel it in vivacity, truth, and copiousness of character. In the facility with which Mr, Hook sketches personal peculiarities he is unrivalled; the readiness with which he falls into all the little niceties and familiarities which mark the tone of society is equally striking; the little appearance of labour in his writings, the singular :varmth and unstudied vigour of his sentences, complete the effect, and make his works the most lively, and at the same time the truest, pictures of life we have yet met with among late writers. " Gurney Married" will go far to make many renders entertain the same opinion as the critic in Fraser's Magazine, who says, " Theodore Hook's novels are the only ones of the day that will go down to posterity, except those of Scott and Edgeworth." Tuesday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a boatman named William Dutton,navigating a barge from King ston- upon-Thames, accidentally fell overboard, opposite Ped lar's-acre, Lambeth, and was drowned. The deceased never rose to the surface after he first disappeared. -- I\ARROW ESCAPE.—On B"unday last, an Irish man whose natural beat of brain was aggravated by the fiery fumes of inordinate potations, was indulging in some rath er extravagant antics at the bottom of the China slip, w h en , having struck several individuals, and it being surmised from his riotous manner that further mischief was brewing, the assistance of policeman Howard was called in. As soon as he made his appearance, Pat bolted, and being hard pressed, and no outlet appearing in any other direction, he rushed fairly into the water, and made towards the College wall. But, ignorant of the subaqueous localities, and bewildered by strong drink, he soon got out of his depth, and would certainly then and there have ended his days, had not a fisherman, who was in a boat on the river, hastily rowed up, and with considerable difficulty rescued the dripping and half-drowned Patlander from a watery burial. He was conveyed to his lodgings in a state of partial insensibility, but appears to have sustained a very temporary it:convenience, as he left the town on the fol lowing day.— Worcester Herald. The great county quoit match between Lord Kelburne and Mr. Alexander of Ballochmyle, came off on Tuesday last, at Darvel, when the Lanarkshire players were beat by the Ayrshire by eleven shots. Great excitement prevailed during the game. The day was fine, and a gr, at number of ladies and H inbur s yl A s \ C v o . u i‘ r l a i n L t. gen E tl x e;,e L n o w s 'e l r o e N on thAeT L field. L S.—)n Tuesday evening, about seven o'clock, a rather alarming cir cumstance occurred at these mills, which, had it happened at any other time, might have been attended with fatal conse quences. A large grindstone is used in the lower part of the building for sharpening instruments and other purposes, and is of course driven by the machinery. On the evening alluded to, owing we believe to additional power being used, the stone flew in pieces ; several large portions being driven through the rafters and floor, sixteen feet above, and afterwards pro jected thr oug h the roof of the building with great violence. A man was thrown down at some distance, but not injured. I'he sound produced was like that of the blasting of rocks by gunpowder.—Edinburgh Courant. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) CHRONICLE.—This has been a very quiet day in the Stock Exchange, and the markets generally were not quite so good, but there was very little alteration in the quotations of any. Consols are * lower, but left off firm at 94q buyers for Money, and 94- to + for the Account. In the Share Market Birmingham (Old) are 1/. lower, being R 1 to 83 preai. The new shares are 24 to 25 prem. ; Southampton (Old) .4.5 to 46} per share; Ditto ( New) 20 to 21 prem. ; Great Western 13i- to 141 prem. ; Leeds and Manchester 17 to 19 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby 9 to dis. ; Manchester and Birmingham to prem. ; North Midland 2 to 3 prem. ; Midland Counties 12 to 10 din. ; Croydon (Old) 161 to 17 per share ; Ditto (New) -4- to 2A- Prcm. ; Blackwall 1 to dis. ; and Greenwich 31- to 3 dis. POST.—No additional information has been received here to-day, beyond that which has already appeared in this Journal, and whether we turn to our foreign or colonial policy, or, in addition, consider the distracted state of Spain and Portugal, we find nothing sufficiently cheering to induce our capitalists to make permanent investment) in either the British or Foreign Securities, notwithstanding the difficulty of employing a very large amount of idle capital otherwise with more profitable results. The British Funds have closed heavily, with a very limited business, and the quotations of yesterday have not been main tained, although the Commissioners have again taken Reduced Annuities to the amount of about 20,0001. sterling at 93i. Consols closed at 94 to I-, for Money and the Account; Bank Stock is 203 to i Money. The premium upon Exchequer Bills remains at 68 to 70, and on India Bonds at 65. The Foreign Market has been very flat to-day, and in the few transactions which have been effected, the quotations have shown no improvement. Spanish Active Bonds are 171- with the unpaid coupons. Portuguese old Five per Cent. b.,nds ore 754- to ; the new Five per Cents. are 31 to and the now 1 hrce per Cent. ditto 20i to Brazilian Bonds are 7q- to and Colombian 25. Danish Bonds are 74h-. Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. 54} to -a, and the old Five per Cents. 100 - to French Three per Cent. Rentes are 81f. 75c., with the Exchange 25f. 50e. ; and the United States Bank Shares have been sold at 25-h- to +. H ER A LD.—We continue without any arrivals which could add to the Foreign or Colonial intelligence which has already ippeared in this Journal, and the mercantile prospects of the country afford at present but little op t iortunity fur remark. A degree of uneasiness, however, pervades the monetary interests of the country, respecting the existing state and future policy of the Government toivards our Foreign and Colonial rela tions, which, notwithstanding - the great influence that a;' , :ry large amount of Luernployed capital must necessarily have upon the market value of the public securities, prevents them from acquiring- that s ability 'Which, under other cieurnstances, might have been anticipated. The distracted state of the Pe ninsula, '.whether we refer to wretched Spain, or the unsettled affairs of Portugal also, conjointly serve to keep the markets for English and Foreign Securities in that state of uneasiness always consequent upon a doubtful state of either market, and ufficiently accounts for the fluctuations which daily occur, and the indisposition fur general speculation in anything but the moot marketable of British Stock/. The British Funds hose not closed quite so firm as they did yesterd4, though the Government Commissioners have again laid out about 20,0001. sterling in Reduced Annuities at 93i. Consols left off heavily at 94 al, for Money and the current Account. TIM E S.—The funds remain generally stationary, and with little animation to-day. The general impression is that money is abundant and easy to be obtained upon the proposition of securities an thing like tangible. It would appear, however, in the opinion of many persons, that the contrary was the case, since banks are springing up daily with the professed object of making money more plentiful, or rather of making paper accommodation inure abundant. Among other projects for this end o ne h as ma d e its appearance, but in very private circulation at present, for the forimition of an " Anglo-Belgian Bank," the prospectus of which presents a highly coloured description of the wonder ful fertility and commercial resources of Belgium, and more par ticularly of its trading progress since the revolution there. In this there may be considerable truth, but certainly with respect to the wants of that country it has not been generally supposed that a deficiency of capital was the chief. It has, on the reverse, been seen that money was so easy that the principal part of the loans raised for the public service has actually been subscribed in the country itself, which may be taken as a proof that there is no scarcity of capital seeking for beneficial investment. For enterprises of every sort, such as railroads, mines, manu factures, insurance and loan companies, it is confessed that there is no want of spirit and money among the people, and the prospectus itself gives a list of those established since 1833, which have absorbed capital to the extent of above 10,000,0001., en amount which will excite surprise even in this country, where speculations of the same kind are carried on upon so large a scale. Exclusive of other con cerns, there exist in Belgium two powerful monied institu tions, one of which, the Societe Generale, possesses a capital stock of nearly 4,500,0001., and the other, the Banque de Bel gique, of 20,000,000 f., or about 800,000/., all paid up. It is stated, indeed, that the accommodation rendered by these con cerns to the trading interests is inconveniently narrowed, because they limit their discounts to bills which have three well-known signatures, and are at short dates ;" but it should be remembered that the Directors should be the best judges of the course of business, and of the extent which is safe as well as profitable. They have a direct interest in making the most profit that is consistent with prudence, and therefore, if long paper discounts are declined, the presumption should be that the benefit is not considered equal to cover the risk. They decline also, one of them at least, to advance by way of loan, or to make advances upon bonds, which must appear to be a commendable prudence where there is a paper cir culation to be provided for "payable to bearer in specie." It Is mentioned, moreover, that besides these two institutions, there are between three hundred and four hundred pri vate bankers, which, for a country like Belgium of 4,000,000 inhabitants, seem to be a proportion of money dealers quite adequate to its agricultural and com mercial exigencies. The conjoint capital of these is esti mated not to exceed 20,000,000 francs, but it is clear that such a calculation must be founded on very loose data, and ought not at all to be relied upon. In addition to the usual business of bankers, the A nglo-Belgian Bank proposes to make advances upon " investments in the public fui.ds of Bel- England, France," and other countries. Besides the circulation of promissory bank paper payable on demand, the bank Is to issue "deposit receipts" bearing interest, with a view, of co urse , t o attrac t sma ll d e p os it ors . Th e s h are h o ld ers , iit s stated, without any qualification, and as it would seem, not subje c t to any contingency of deficient profits or absolute losses, are to " rec e ive 5 per c e nt. per annum upon the sums paid up," besides a dividend. It will be seen from this sketch that the system of operations proposed is, to say the least, of a very questionable character, and such as will be scarcely compatible with a sound money business. But, after all, it is by no means established that there is any deficiency of capital, public or private, in Belgium, for all the purposes of traffic and speculation. The rates of interest current are not high, and the dividends of 8 to 10 per cent, noted as being paid by the two establishments referred to, which have been in operation several years of prosperous times, can be no criterion on which to found a cer tainty of similar results—results which, after all, cannot be looked on perhaps as sufficiently brilliant to compensate the risk which should always be taken into account of embarking in joint-stock banking speculations in a foreign country, where the property and the management can from the nature of things be so little under the control or supervision of share holders here. It is sufficiently difficult to check paper money dealing on the spot, but afar off it must of course be next to impracticable. The Belgians, after all, having speculators enough of their own at home, will probably have the discretion to oppose any introduction of the kind from abroad. What should we say to American, or French, or other capitalists, seeking to found banks in England? calumniating and assailing the Reformers to the best of his poor ability, within a few yards of the place in which Sir Thomas held him up to public scorn. The Rev. Mr. Angus spoke briefly, but with much sound feeling and great effect, on the sub ‘ ret of the interference of ministers of religion in political mAtters. He stated that in so far as politics bore on the great interests of the humari race, the ministers of religion were justified in taking a part in them. This is the right view of the matter. Several other gentlemen addressed the company at considerable length and with much ff,ct ; but we must content our selves with referring our readers to the report of their speeches, our space being already exhausted.—Morning Advertiser.. We are by no me ins dspesed to be alarmists. More over, we are perfectly satisfied, that in spite of modern im provements, there is still (maigh of British spirit left in the country to defend the " sicred soil" from foreign invasion, should suck an event ever oc, ur— " If ever breath of British gale Should fan the Tri-color, Or foov_.:ep of invader rude, With rapine fool, and red with blood, Molest this haply shore"— we are quite sure that, whether under the tri-color, or any other colour, an enemy would always meet a proper recep tion here. But it is nevertheless our duty to inform our readers of any eircurnstar-c, s of a threatening nature, espe ciallywhen we find them in a Ministerial Newspaper, without a word of editorial or official contradiction. The following paragraph from the 117tilel;aren Herald, appears in the Globe of last evening, tmaccompauied by note or comment:— Colonel Ward, of the Hoy,l Engineers, and other survey ors, are now visiting tie- ports of Cumberland, and reconoiter ing their capabilities of defence, with a view to erect batteries and make other prepratichs of d. fence and precaution in the event of a foreign war. We confess we do not quire see what danger is to bo apprehended on the Curnb.:rlend coast, unless, indeed, a Russian fleet should tome there north-about—a demarehe, of which, perhaps, we ough. not to be sceptical, after an announcement we lately saw in a private letter from a po litician at Paris, that. the sa:cl Ru: - ,sians had just been so clever as to land 6,003 men is the Persian Gulf. Still we have thought it. ri 4 lo to give the news as we find it. And while on the subject of foreign invasion, it may not be out of place to add th.t some week or ten days since we received the subjoin ,l intrination—which, as we were not sure of the authority on which it rested, we declined then to publish : It is currently reported that the Martello Towers on the caFtern coast are initntai,itely to be put into a state of defence. We print it now, liowevrr, as warlike preparations are the order of the day, with a request that the Globe will have the goodness to say if there be any truth in it ; and as the East would seem more open to invasion than the West coast, whether other defences than Martello Towers —men-of-war, for inseince—have suggested themselves to the collective wisdom of her Majesty's Government ? Morning Post. Our relations with foreign Powers have seldom proved capable of exciting any general or warm interest among the people of England before that critical period of a na tional controversy which seemed Rely to result in an appeal to arms. Commercial qui•slions, in their earlier stages, are not of a nature to rouse the fears or resentments of the non-trading classes, or even ca those among our merchants who have no immediate concern in the branch of traffic which has been encroached upon, obstructed, or threat ened. Territorial q uestions—viz., those which involve the right of sovereignty over an isolated possession, or a disputed boundary between contiguous States, are more definite and tangible to the popular apprehension than commercial quarrels, but are rarely thought of by the people at large, save only under the supposed contingency of approaching war, when they are felt with great keen ness, and eagerly contested as vital to the honour of the country. A third division of international questions is that which embraces considerations of a more abstract policy, affecting the political influence, ascendancy, and pre-emi nence of a realm, amongst the wide community of civi lized states. These questions, although they may be fre quently raised by a single circumstance, and may ostensibly be directed to a specific object, are often of more intrinsic and extensive importance tle,n either of the others, or than both united : yet are their attributes and bearings far less discernible to the public eye than such as involve mainly the rights of commerce or of positive dominion, and the Mi nisters of a representative Government have often, conse quently, the most difficult of all tasks before them when they attempt to frustrate hostile designs, and to provide, by demonstrations of physical power, for emergencies arising out of them in those cases where the principles or purposes to be maintained are of the most immeasurable, although the least obvious moment. The chief pressure upon the attention of the people of England—and, indeed, upon that of the world gene rally—proceeding from the state of our relations with foreign Powers, has been caused by a series of aggressive and domineering acts, as well as indications, on the part of Russia, insulting to public opinion throughout Chris tendom, but justifying a more determined and long sighted jealousy in the Councils of Great Britain than of any other State (Turkey and Austria excepted), be cause England, through her Colonies, her distant depend encies, and universal commerce, spreading over the four quarters of the globe—England lives everywheie, breathes everywhere, is everywhera vulnerable, and, on the first principle of self-defence, is bound to be everywhere watchful, nay, to be everywhere, in case of necessity, armed. We admit at once, that of the three classes of dispute to which we have above adverted, one of them— to wit, a mutual claim to the possession of the same ter ritory, does not at present constitute a specific ground of quarrel. But unfortunately even that exists between the two Governments, under a different form. England, in deed, lays claim for herself to no territorial acquisition— not an acre ; but Russia has put forth many such, rea lizing some of the most formidable and important, to the grevious detriment of England and her allies,to the alarm ing aggrandizement of her own relative strength, and in contemptuous violation of the faith of treaties. At the same time, if the encroachments of Russia on the Danube, on the Euxine, in Circassia, in Persia, and on the Caspian, were not manifestly pregnant with the most fatal conse quences to the peaceful industry of Great Britain, and to that political reputation on which her moral influence with other powers must depend, we should be among the first to cry let Russia alone—" watch her," but do not interfere with her. The question, therefore, 'is not precisely free from all territorial character ; although England seeks to ac quire nothing, she struggles to prevent Russia from grasp ing much. It is absolutely and in the first instance terri torial on the side of Russia, who aims at the seizure of every inch of ground between the Danube and the Darda nelles. It is a negative territorial war for England, who seeks but to protect the owners of that fine territory in their ancient rights. The commercial and political character of the contest, however, is as direct and positive on the part of England as ever war was by land or ocean. Her vitality is at once invaded where armed interdicts are placed upon the free trade of her subjects and upon the access of her councils and her influence to foreign States. The appropria tion of the whole Caspian Sea by Russia has been an aggres sion upon the free intercourse of this commercial people with Persia and the ne,ghbouring inhabitants of Asia. The war against the Circassians, carried on by means of frau dulent and forcible obstructions to the free inter course of European commerce, heretofore unmolested in its dealings with the eastern shores of the Euxine, is an armed aggression upon the sovereign rights of England. The villainous treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi, crammed down the throat of the helpless Mahmoud, was an aggression upon the sovereign rights of the British empire, which this Government, having seasonably protested against by words, may, on the very first favourable occasion, lawfully and wisely resist by arms. Tile menacing position assumed by Nicholas towards Turkey, the march of armies towards the frontier, the increase of his fleet in the Euxine, the incessant and hostile preparations in each of his ports and military and naval depots (we say nothing now of his pro ceedings in the East, which belong to another chapter)—one and all of these are aggressions upon England, and must be repelled by political %slalom if possible ; if otherwise, at the cannon's mouth. The English people generally, notwith standing numerous warnings from the press—the Continen tal press, as well as that o England—have looked on with much seeming, and rather stupid, indifference, at the progress of those evils, and were actually more taken up with wretched municipal or village faction, with the bray ings of O'Connell, and the b llowings of MS Hale, than with the systematic and insidious approaches of a foreign enemy to the citadels of our national industry and power. The first political events which a pp eare d t o rouse an d encourage th em , t o p rove th at muc h was to b e d one, and that some thinghad already re a anddy disgracebe e been done, against towards our arrestingnotthe inconsiderable marc h o f misfortune foreign greatness, were th e t wo t reat i es not long s i nce ne gotiated by Lord Palrucr,ton with the friendly powers of • Austria and Turkey, c.n which no jealous or factious spirit ought to prevent a British subject, whatever may I be his politics, fro bestowing th e appro b at i on f a i r l y earned by theMinister h t0 ,,0 whom we are ind e bt e d f or them. The tre aty wo t it f hro ughot ey gives E ng l an d a di rect interest and right self-assertion through out against Russian in trigue or violence The treaty with whole minuteand establish es the Turkish Empire. Austria o p ens movement t to us the whole course of the yDanube, England in close observation of ev ery exec uted by Russia a'ong the north ern frontier of the oft :•quity, and honour, may dominions of Mahmoud. The treaties are prudent, and efficient measures of defence and precaution adopted under difficulties of no coning ,, ; iald well managed, though it, Turkey without spillin g quash a projectedspiiritaof drop of blood. Should, however, the Autocrat despise the Perftct ELWYN V. M'QUEEN This was an allegation in a suit respecting the validity of the will of Mr. Peter Rannier, who died in October, 1837. The will in question, which principally benefits Mrs. Elwyn, was at the commencemont of the suit opposed by Mrs. M'Queen, the niece of the deceased, the daughter of his brother, Admiral Rannier, who has subsequently withdrawn herself from the litigation. tlae executors of a ,former will, dated January, 1836, supplying her place in opposition to the latter paper. The will is opposed on the grounds of testa mentary incapacity and undue influence. The allegation which was now offered on behalf of the executive of the former will, amongst cela.r facts, denies that an ill feeling had arisen between the testator and his 'niece in consequence of her marriage, as stated in the plea on the other side ; or that any neglect had been exhibited by Mrs. M-Queen towards her uncle. One of the articles of the allegation was excep tive to the character of a Mr. Canning, the drawer of the will in question, and one of the witnesses in the cause. Dr. ADDAMS (with whom was Dr. Curteis), opposed the admissibilitr of the allegation, and her Majesty's Advocate and Dr. Jenner supported it. The COURT was of opinion that the article of the allegation exceptive to the character of the drawer of the will was en tirely inadmissible, and that the other articles required refor mation.—Directed to be reformed. MORE AND WEEDON, ALSO GILL V. GOODS The arguments in this case were brought to a conclusion Dr. HAGGARD was heard in reply. Judgment deferred. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CONSPIRACY —Yesterday Mr. Clarkson applied to the Court for process in a case of conspiracy; the names of the parties concerned he would not mention for certain reasons. The else was one of a very extraordinary nature. Tradesmen had suffered losses to nearly the enormous amount of 4,0001. Ile would leave it to the Court to say what amount of bail should be given. The CHAIRMAN—WeII, then, take the party in the sum of 2001. and two sureties in the same amount, together with 24 hours' notice of bail. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. SINGULAR DlSCOVERY. —Yesterday morning, two fashion ably-dressed young men came to this office to give information that they had lost a large sum of money the previous evening. They mentioned the object of their visit to the gaoler, who re ferred them to the clerk, by whom they were asked some questions and desired to remain until an officer arrived to ac company them in search of the missing property. Unfortu nately, however (for the young gentlemen) it happened that the clerk had a few hours before received a letter from Leeds, containing a minute description of two persons who had ab sconded from that place, and were charged with obtaining mo ney, the property of their employers, to whom they had not accounted for the same ; and while they remained in the office the clerk sent to the printing office of the Hue and Cry, where he obtained an accurate description of the applicants, which had been sent for;; insertion in the next publication. Upon receiving this, they were immediately given in charge to Fletcher, the officer, and brought before Mr.Twyford and Mr. Thistleton for examination. The circumstances of the capture being stated to Mr. Twyford, he inquired the names of the prisoners, and one of them said that his name was George Blakey, and the name of the other was William Collet. Fletcher stated that he believed they were the persons al luded to in the advertisement sent front Leeds, and asked the Magistrate to remand them for some time, until he could com municate with Mr. Reed of Leeds, to whom information was desired to be given. The prisoner Blakey said there was no doubt but that they were the persons alluded to in the advertisement; but he wished to know what they were charged with before being locked up ? Mr. TWYFORD said he would remand them for a week, and in the meantime Mr. Reed, of Leeds, should be informed of what had happened, and if he should arrive here sooner they should be brought up again, when the charge against them would be heard. The prisoners were accordingly remanded for a week. Among the articles which were taken possession of by the officer were a number of books relative to Australia, memoran dums, accounts for clothes purchased, &c. QUEEN-SQUARE. Thomas Bateman, the inaLi wit) has b: en in custody for upwards of a week, charged with rebbin , r George Trurn'ule, Esq., of the Irish Office, was yesterday brought up for re examination. Additional evidence having been taken, the prisoner's commitment was made out for Newgate. MARYLEBONE. James Armstrong, an intelligent-looking boy, about thir teen years of age, was brought up in custody, charged by police constable 89 S, who stated that on the previous night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, as he was on duty in Cam. den Town, he found t he prisoner sleeping in a flower-garden by the road side. Witness awoke him, and as he said he had no other place of refuge, he was conveyed to the station hous(-. Mr. RAWLINSON (to the boy)--Why do you lie about in this manner ? Boy—l've no where else to go, Sir. Mr. RAWLINSON—Where do you belong to ? Boy—l don't rightly know, Sir ; but I've generally been about Cam den Town. Mr. RAWLINSON _Have you a father or mother ?—Boy (crying)—l have neither, Sir ;my father was a private in the Life Guards, and within a few months after I lost him my mother died. Mr. RAWLINSON—Have vou ever been in any employment ? Boy—Yes, Sir, I was a little while with Mr. Delasier, of Russell-square, but he left off business, and I was di , eharged. Mr. RAWLINSON (to Inspector Aggs, of the S The boy was found in St. Pancras parish, he had better be taken there. . . VY Inspector—Very well, Sir; but if he's taken in to-day, they'll no doubt turn him out to-morrow. It was here stated that a green-grocer named Jackson, living in Arlington-street, and who knew something of the boy, would probably a-list him. The Magistrate gave the poor fellow half-a- clown from his own pocket, and directed the inspector to do all he could for him in his present necessity. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Thomas Foshott was placed at the bar before Mr. GROVE, charged with having committed a fraud upon Mr. Simpson, lessee of the City-road trust, by taking toll. Mr. Gnovc committed him on the charge for two months to the House of Correction. THAMES-OFFICE. DARING BURGLARY AND CAPTURE OF TIIE TnIEVES.--Yes terday three Irishmen, named Cornelius Hayley alias John Crawley, James Mahoney alias Murnay, and John Davis, were brought before Mr. BALLANTINE on a charge of break ing into the house of Mr. 11, , nry Greenwood, the Ship and Dragon, King-street, Old Gravel-lane. The investigation created much interest, from the circum stance of many daring burglaries, several attended with the abstraction of considerable property, having been committed in St. George's East, Shadwell, and \Yapping, during the last two months. Three burglaries were committed in one night in Wapping -street a fortnight ago. The prisoners, who are :.11 young men of very bad character, and profess to be coal whippers, and have done very little work for the last year, are suspected of being concerned in all the depredations which hays been committed in the n ighbourhood of the police-office. Davis is a fellow of desperate habits, and has been in custody before. He has a sister, a little girl, in the House of Correc tion, and two other sisters have been repeatedly in the hands of the police. It appeared in evidence that between the hours of one and two o'clock that morning a young man named Henderson was passing the Ship public• house with a friend named Kippin, when they heard the rattling of glass within. They listened, and soon afterwards heard the breaking of more glass. They went to the door, and next heard a sudden pull of a door and the jingling of copper moneys. Suspecting thieves were in the house, Henderson went in search of a policeman, leaving Kip pin in front of the public-house. He soon returned with Crawford, a policeman of the K division, who caused the house to be surrounded and aroused the inmates. Notwith standing all the precautions adopted, two of the bur glars managed to effect their escape while Crawford was knocking at the door. On the police being ad mitted into the house by tee landlord they found every. thing in confusion. The I;kd been e:ltered, the till violently wrenched open, and iti contents, consisting only of a few _shillings in copper moneys, stolen. On 4 going into the parlour it was discovered that the burglars ha`_ entered through the skylight. Beneath it two tables had been placed, by which Davis and Mahoney had been e nabled to effect their escape when the alarm was given. HayleY. however, was not so fortunate. In attempting to follow his confederates through the opening made in the skylight, one of the tables placed on the top of another broke under his weight , and he fell with it to the ground. His retreat being cut offs by the front and back doors, where Henderson and Kippin were stationed, he laid down under one of the tables its the parlour. In this situation he was found by Crawford, on en tering the dwelling, and he pretended to be drunk and very sleepy. Crawford seized him by the collar, on which he threw off his disguise, and said he would tell all about it. He then said that Murnay and Davis had broken into the house with him, and had effected their escape through the skylight. On further search two jackets and a cap wens. found by the police. Hayley owned one of the jackets, the pockets o f which contained is. 9d. in copper. Mr. G re enwood was enabled to identify some of the coins. The only article car tied off by the burglars, beside the money in the, till, was a silver spoon. After Hayley was locked up the police went in all directions in search of Davis and Murnay, and the Thames Police believing the former was secreted in a vessel in the river, searched it throughout, but without success. About six o'clock in the morning Davis was taken into custody, by Vere, a police sergeant, at his father's dwelling in a wretched place called Tittymouse alley, Shadwell. He was preparing breakfast at the time, and said he had been in bed all night: which was ascertained to be false. Murnay was observe(' coming ashore in a boat a few hours afterwards, and he Was captured by Henderson, and taken to the station-house. Il e declined saying how he had passed the night. Mr. Valentine, inspector of the K division, submitted to the , Magistrate that if the case was remanded for a few days he' should be enabled to make it complete against all the pri— soners, and to bring home some other robberies to them. Mr. BALLANTINE said he should certainly remand tilts prisoners, and asked if there was any other charge againtat them. Police-sergeant Grave said he charged them with commit ting a burglary at the house of Mr. Baldwin, in Foxe's-lanes Shadwell, a few nights since. He had recovered some of the stolen property, which he was ready to produce. Mr. BALLANTINE said he would remand all the prisoners until Tuesday. By that time he should expect Mr. Valentine to get the second ease completed. The three men were then romanded to Clerkenwell Prison. The office and the avenues leading to it, and the street in front, were crowded with Irish people, chiefly women, during the whole day, and they kept up a continual howling and crying about the " dear boi s," the " darlings," frequently exclaiming that their blessed lives were being sworn a way- The inconvenience to persons having business to transact in the office was very great, and the nuisance continued until half-past five o'clock, when the prisoners were taken away is the van. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 14. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF EAST RETFORD. This was an information filed in 1832 for the purpose of in quiring into alleged breaches of trust by the trustees of the grammar school of East Retford. -The LORD CHANCELLOR had no doubt the Corporation was liable, like individuals, to make good to the charity the debt that might be found due to it in respect of the alienated estates. His Lordship was, however, satisfied that the part of the inquiry to which the defendants objected was contrary to the practice of the Court. The Corporation estates ivere not the subject of the information, and with respect to them no inquiry ought to be directed, nor could the Court compel the Corporation, under such circumstances, to produce the title deeds of their property. Lord Eldon and Lord Lynd hurst in the cas es referred to, had both disallowed such in quiries,' and, with all deference to Sir John Leach, his Lord. ship preferred their authority. That part of the decree directing the production of the Corporation deeds must there fore be reversed. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 14. TIIE QUEEN V. BIUNTZ AND OTHERS. Lord DENMAN, referring to this case, which was argued on Monday last, said that the Court was not prepared to say th at there had bee n an y misdirection in this case, but upon the whole the Court thought that on one count or other the de. fondants were entitled to have the rule for allowing them a new trial made absolut.e.—Ruh: absolute. The rest of the day wasoccupied with parish settlement cases. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 14. REED V. CROFT. This cause came before the Curt on a demurrer to the re plication. The c.lendant, had pleaded in so l vency, aid the plaintiff roplied that he had had no notice according to the provision of th e Insolvent Debtors' Act. To tha t replication there was a demurrer on the ground that it raised the ques tion whcf4er the Insolvent Debtors Court had acted properly, it being the duty of that Court to give the notice of insolvency, and that tha t was a q uestion which the Court could not , entertain. Mr. PETERSDORFF argued in support of the demurrer, and Mr. JAMES against it. The Court took time to consider its judgment. INGRAM V. I,AWSON. This was an action of libel against the Times newspaper, which now canto on for argument on a demurr er t o th e de fendant's th ird plea. The declar a t ion stated that the plain tiff, being the owner of a vessel which w as a b ou t t o sa il to Calcutta, advertised his vessel in the Times for the purpose of procuring freight and respectable passengers ; but that in the same paper in which this advertisement appeared the defen dant published a letter from a correspondent, asserting that the vessel was in an unseaworthy state, and that she had been "sold to the Jews to carry out convicts." That letter consti tuted the libei for which the action was brought. The third plea purported to be an answer to the whole cause of action, and it justified all that part of the libel relating to the unsea worthiness of the ship; but that plea of justifization did not extend to the assertion that the ship had been sold to the Jews to carry out convicts. To that plea there was a demur rer, on the ground that not being an answer to the whole cause of action the plea was bad. Mr. HRNDERSON appeared in support of the demurrer, but was interrupted by the Court, who asked Mr. Humphrey how he c ,uld support such a plea ? Mr. HUMPHREY, in support of the plea, urged that the sub stance of the libel was that this vessel was unseaworthy, and that the plea, consequently, in justifying that part of the libel, supplied a good answer to the action ; for the words which were notjustified by the plea could not of themselves be considered as libellous. The COURT, however, held that those words were libellous, that the plea of justification clearly did not cover them, and that therefore the demurrer was good. Their judgment was accordingly for the plaintiff, with liberty to the defendant to amend his plea. PREROGATIVE COURT.—Nov. 11. IN THE GOODS OF JAMES AIMING. The deceased made a will, which had an attestation clause regularly executed, with the names of two attesting witnesses affixed, and was, therefore, on the face of it a valid docu ment. In the affidavit, however, of these witnesses, it has subsequently appeared that they did not sign their names at one and the same time in the presence of the testator, a 3 the law requires. Dr. ROBERTSON, under these circumstances, made applica tion to the Court to pass its sentence against the will. The CIURT would not grant the application, as collusion might have been entered into between the two attesting wit nesses. It could not, however, grant its probate to the paper. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. :1. Baker's Main Bensham Bute's Tanficld Moor 2l 6 Ch..sterAin Hebburn Main 22 6 . .4oward'a Main 22 Holywell Main I..eaze's [Vigil Picton l9 9 Pontop Windsor 2: 6 south Hartley 2l 6 Willington Walls End Pell and Brown Walls End Heaton 23 9 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth 23 6 Walls End Newmarch 22 0 Walls End Northumberland Wale End Peareth l9 6 Ships arrivet4 gulf,: COU Per Quarter. Abingdon Andover s. to s. s. to 64 80 30 74 82 29 63 80 30 73 SO 32 61 81 27 65 SO 26 68 89 28 72 73 26 63 SS '26 64 70 32 63 75 24 64 74 32 64 15 25 64 74 30 65 75 33 63 74 29 8) 35 70 74 28 63 72 24 67 70 27 76 iiirmingliam.,—.... Pridport ---. .:. Cirencester Guildford Hereford flighworth Reading Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge —.....—«- Wantage Warminster Worcester~,.....,. Per Bushel. Wheat garley Oats 33 33 Beans Pease 4 U 6 0 5 6 I Hay 3l, E —Nov. 15. RKETS DURIN Wheat. i Barley. 1 Oats. THE Beans. a. to a. 5. $. to 5. 34, 22 30 31 25 40 16 22 36 26 30 32 20 25 30 26 30 35 20 30 32 23 26 32 22 29 42 28 34 36 20 26 34 22 29 35 20 27 34 20 28 40 28 32 36 20 24 22 32 32 17 28 34 20 25 34 22 26 21 22 65 5 I — 32 36 30 32 :HELTENHAM MARKETS. s. d. to s. d. , Pet lb. 86 96 32 40 34 4-4 31, 40 33 42 41 46 Ton s. Walls End Percy Benham 2: 2 Walls End Kiddell's 9 Walls End Belmont ........ 05 a . %ads End Brads:yll's Hettou 6 Walls End Haswell .: 4 0 Walls End kletton ............ Wills End Lambton ..... 9O - walls End 5tewarr5.......... , ,t Walls End Hartlepool 4 , 0 Walls End Adelaide 23 g ° A 4 Walls End Cragwood ....... 6 Walls End South Durham g •' a Is End Tees 24 Walls End West Tees Walls End West Hetton " .” 5 Blythe o Howard's Netkerton Main 6 Walls End Devonshire 3 Walls End Elgin [sat market-daY. 57. 'EEK* — j — piiise• ..------''':, R to ...... -- ~ .... . ••• ....o. —. .- ..- - 0 ..- - 96 34 .... 35 ~ .•• / - - ..... 42 -- 42 33 ... , ^"" 40 46 e. to a 9 61. 9 7 33 42 36 40 Beef Mutton Veal Pork Lamb f. ss. to 4/. 4s. Od. per ton. HULL MARKET.—Nov. 13. Wheat, Old 5Ss. 6' s. 785 New s9s. 60s 72s- Foreign 684 74s 7R . In bond... —5. —s -- s ' Oats, Poland —s. '2os. 22s ......Old —s. 235. =•i'• Small or Feed.... —s. 17s. I.Bs --a —s 20s. Foreign Barley, Norf. & Suf ... at,s 325. 335. Line. & Wold —s. 30s. 3.90. Foreign Beans 36s 28s. 425. Foreign 265. 264 30s. Pease, White-. 36s. 38s. 408. Grey 265. 288. 30s. Tares ....... 34s. 365. 363 Foreign —.5 —B. --s. Rapeseed, In bond none Free, per last 23/. Os. 331. ALARMING FIRE AN NEASDON.—Last nig hts between the hours of six and seven, the village of Neasclor: Middlesex, was thrown into a state of much confusion hY,„ § alarming fire breaking out on the extensive farming pre belonging to Mr. Newman, situated in the parish ab. bo named. The flames were first observed to proceed from of straw-yard adjacent to the barn and from the descriptio n ., o its ( oatent, burnt with terrific fury. A great number of c iu e a inhabitants soon reached the spot, and immediately cornme n r i m removing the live stock to a place of safety. In the illt e 9 , oo information was s e nt u p t o L on d on f or ass i s tance, and b nine o'clock the engines of B a k e r-street and King-stre et 6 , 4 , tions arrived. By that ti me , h owever , th rou gh the activen'ea et-ions of the inhabitants of Neasdon, the flames were o nfi e to the stable-yard, but much dam ige was done. The CB-9 of the fire is unknown. Mr. Newman is uninsured. r his Assad Yacoub Ka at, a Turk, in the costume ° - " f countr, came to Marlborough-street Police-office yest L er "„; / o f accompanied by Captain Maude, as interpreterAto make * ll . - tte ti the circumstances of a robbery which had just been col - et : l ' l 'oe o lain,. About nine o'clock in the morning he was in to New-road, and having missed his way, he went into a siaile inquire the direction to P.lrk-place, Regent's-park. " ips o endeavouring to make his wish kn ow n, a t a ll, well-dresse d u ,, stepped up to him, and, accosting him in French , fod litely offered his services. Complainant accepted thew, him took the proferred arm of the stranger, who, after taking 8 ,4 to the corner of Park-place, wished him good morning , en t went away. He had hardly quitted complainant a re nni k et. before the discovery was made that he had, through a 1 30 c big hole in the outer robe, contrived to possess himself et 0 00 which contained nine 51. notes, a diamond ring, a string TV hundred pearls, and some memorandums of cons equence. i . o . particulars were taken down for the information of the he r e , Winter appears to set in both early and sev e fto tt, On Saturday, a heavy fall of snow, accompanied with 00, left all the hills in the west as white as they will be thi s osi son. Last night we again had pretty sharp frost. t he the `yids; change of weather holds out a most dreary prospect force farmers in the higher grounds and in the moors. In land farms, nearly all the grain is still exposed in the 10 0 sad in the intermediate lands between the moors country, about half of the crop is still out. We have 13°1' 0 0 one farm in the parish of Eaglcsham, with every stook is out. It is not for us to indulge in the unpleasant NO' 00 11 such an unfavourable season ; but with such weather, aft er 00 the short interval of one year since 1836, the e onsel t bel cannot but be ruinous to farmers in the high grounds, 8 13 il ,/ will be severely felt by the poor in all parts of the cottatrf n Of Glasgow Chronicle. At the Barristers' Court held for the revisl; o o the county voters at Warminster, the Learned GI t he decided that Dissenting ministers and the trustees 0 and the dor chapels were not entitled to vote at elections for county bers, and struck offsixteen.—Devizes Gazette PRIZE CUP S.—Near and Second-hand SI I's 0 1 PRIZE CUPS are offered at very REDUCED PRI C E - a 'Pat electionsmay be made from a great variety, both of Sizes tP.,„pro terns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, G o ld sm ith, and WatelTreet)' 47, Cernhill, Lond on (Seven Doors from Gracechureh-a i d sr Drawings of Cups w ill b e f orwar d e d i n answer to a post - P a plication. It is‘lesirable Letters for Drawings should reentl ° : ati irr' . the Size or about th e P r i ce o f t h e C up cr C ups t h a t maybe ....ei B IR T HS. t•l'''' On the 12th inst., th e w if e o f M r . J ames Bi s hop, Lag ° f iefr of a son. c On the 12th inst., at St o k e N ew i ng t on , th e l a dy of Is ° , , morland, Esq., of a son. g s, of On the 12th inst., Mrs. L u k e , Broad-street-bui lding daughter. 00l b On the 13th inst., in Bedford-pl ace , M rs . William 4 -iii a son. 7 0 MARRIED. 0 the 7, At the Chapel of the British Embassy, at Brussels, e i colon vsq.' inst., in the presence of the Ambassador, Lieutenant - ~f ton, K.., to Fanny, third (laughter of John S. J,,,ess °ll l3ri 6l6- barrister-at-law, and granddaughter of the late 1 100 * Goodrich, of the Bermuda Islands id , ~, 10' ./in , ./). At Point de Galle, island of Ceylo on the 05th Of '''' a t4 Ser t f aged 32, Willoughby Smith, Esq., Itten'Commander of e t o b r e in erlf brow," youngest son of the late William Smith, Esq., ' Old Elvet, Durham. At Madras, on the 14th of July, aged 24, 1 3e11, Esr, q., ,randim. of General Robert Bell, of Russell-square. ~,, , f At Calcutta, on the Ist of August last, N. J. Ilalhed , 71;lhe ° the Bengal Civil Service, eldest of the late John son Mu Esq., of Yately House, Hants. e CO' On the 25th of August, at Colombo, in the island 0 . o f Robert Crowe, Esq., aged 32. William fl. of formerly At Edinburgh, on the 9th inst., Miss Gardner, 10 9 ,f Colebrook -t errace , I s li ng t on , age d 93. hor On the 11th inst., at Worcester, Mr. Robert Felton, chant, aged 64. ea 86. 11 , On the 12th inst.; at Chelsea, Reuben Smith, Es(l.:_!_f t clang On the 12th inst., at Spital-square, Ann Maria, on` _... , e-e l to of Matthew Warton, Esq Lonciiiii: I ) riiittql anti Published b. Ni RDO Y - 015; 073 ' 60 011 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce; No. 112 S trand, is th e of Middlesex.--Thursday, November lb, 181111. !